4 missing Orange County women all from same area

SANTA ANA - Santa Ana police Wednesday were investigating whether there was a connection in the disappearances of four women since mid-October.

Some of the women have issues with substance abuse or arrests for prostitution, and two of them are mothers, said Santa Ana police Cpl. Anthony Bertagna. What they have in common is they are from a neighborhood east of First Street between Grand Avenue and the Costa Mesa (55) Freeway, Bertagna added.

Police were concerned enough about the disappearance of Martha Anaya, 28, that they issued a public plea for help in finding her on Nov. 27.

“She never doesn’t communicate with her kids, she never misses holidays, birthdays, and now she has been,” Bertagna said.